Datadog vs Loki

Side-by-side comparison of Datadog and Loki to help you choose the right tool.

Feature	Datadog	Loki
Pricing	Free / $15-$34/host/mo	Free / Cloud pricing
Rating	⭐ 4.5/5	⭐ 4.4/5
Categories	monitoring-observability, security-scanning	monitoring-observability
APM & tracing	✅	❌
Infrastructure monitoring	✅	❌
Log management	✅	❌
Real User Monitoring	✅	❌
Synthetics	✅	❌
Security monitoring	✅	❌
Log aggregation	❌	✅
Label-based	❌	✅
Grafana integration	❌	✅
LogQL	❌	✅
Multi-tenancy	❌	✅
Alerting	❌	✅

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Log aggregation by Grafana

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